Hi, I installed Ubuntu Jaunty (64-bit) and I'm trying to make my two identical monitors work on it with an Nvidia Quadro FX580 gcard. I have installed the supported nVidia driver (180.44). In the Nvidia X Server Settings I could configure TwinView, but I get what I can only describe as 'color static' in a couple of columns. In the meantime the primary monitor looks perfect.

I tried the same hardware with Windows XP on it and I was able to set up everything perfectly. It seems to be a Linux issue.

The monitors have VGA out only, the Quadro has one DVI-I and two DisplayPorts. The monitor on the DVI-I works fine, the one on the DisplayPort doesn't.

I'm trying to attach a picture of the 'color static', hope it'll work. The picture is of the secondary monitor plugged into the DisplayPort.

I tried to tweak the Nvidia settings, but everything gives me the same output: the static on the secondary monitor. I tried TwinView, Xinerama, Separate X, the only difference is that with some settings I get a black second monitor, the primary always works. Help?

Phewww... This wasn't easy for a first time Linux user. (Even exiting X properly was a challenge, but on the upside I now know what it actually is, let alone exiting, restarting, I can do all... Ok, I can do a few things with X.) Eventually I got to install 190.36, which works fine-ish, thanks for the tip, AaronP!

Two questions though:
1/ In the X server settings I can set the primary monitor resolution to 1920x1200, which I should because its a 24" widescreen monitor. On the identical secondary monitor I can go only up to 1440x900. Why is that?

2/ After I installed the 190.36 driver, I ran an update on my system, lots of staff was installed, and the driver went to kaboom. I ended up reinstalling Ubuntu, running all the updates, and as a last step installing the driver. Now it works fine. But I'm worried to have to run a major update and it would compromise the graphics driver somehow. Is there a proper procedure to update (I run Update Manager) that would avoid all this?

Thanks for trying it, penggull. I'm happy to hear that the new driver fixed the DisplayPort problem. As for your other two problems,
#1: Please run "nvidia-xconfig --mode-debug", restart X with both monitors attached, and then generate and attach an nvidia-bug-report.log.gz file.
#2: Please describe "kaboom" in more detail. When the kernel is upgraded, you'll need to reinstall the driver to build a kernel module for your newly-installed kernel. Similarly, if you upgrade the X server it may replace libglx.so with Mesa's, so you may need to reinstall the driver to fix that. This should all be documented in the README, so please let me know if the documentation was insufficient.